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<h2>Speaker</h2>

<h3>Bernard Caron  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Bernard Caron.jpg" alt="Bernard Caron" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Vice President Broadcasting Research Branch, Communications Research Centre (CRC), Canada</strong></p>
 
 <p>Mr. Bernard Caron is Vice-President of the CRC's Broadcast Technology Branch. Mr. Caron joined the CRC in 1979 and assumed his current role in 2004.</p>
 <p>During these years at CRC, he contributed to many technological advancements, including the development of videotext and teletext systems, the precursors of the Internet, and the creation of the CRC's Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory (ATEL). This laboratory was used to subjectively evaluate five proposed television systems, out of which emerged today's North American standard for High Definition Television.</p>
 <p>Mr. Caron was involved in the joint Canada-USA-Brazil OFDM-6 project, which aimed to adapt and evaluate the Digital Television transmission technology proposed by Europe for the Americas. He has also negotiated and managed many projects under contract for private enterprises from the United States, China, Korea and Canada to evaluate the performance of various Digital Television transmission systems and technologies.</p>
 <p>Mr. Caron received a B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval, Québec City, in 1978 and a M. Sc. from the University of Ottawa in 1984. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. He has actively participated on several employee-centric committees including the Industry Canada Survey Advisory Committee and the CRC Employee Advisory Committee, of which he was a founding member. He has published more than 70 papers and reports.</p>
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<h3>Lynn Claudy  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Lynn Claudy.jpg" alt="Lynn Claudy" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Senior Vice President, Science and Technology for National Association of Broadcasting (NAB), USA</strong></p>
 
 <p>Lynn Claudy is Senior Vice President of Science and Technology for the National Association of Broadcasters. As head of the Science and Technology department, he is responsible for representation of the NAB in all radio and television technical matters. He joined NAB in 1988 as a staff engineer and held positions of Director of Advanced Engineering and Technology and Vice President before assuming his present position in February 1995.</p>
 <p>Prior to joining NAB, he was employed by Hoppmann Corporation, a communications systems integration firm where he held a variety of technical and management positions. He also was a part-time professor in the Physics Department at the American University in Washington, DC, where he taught courses in acoustics and audio technology. Previous to that, he was a development engineer at Shure Brothers Inc., a manufacturer of audio equipment. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College, a B.S.E.E. from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.S.E.E. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a member of IEEE, SMPTE, SBE and AES. </p>
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<h3>Rick Ducey  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Rick Ducey.jpg" alt="Rick Ducey" width="120" height="160" /></div><strong>Chief Strategy Officer, BIA / Kelsey, USA</strong></p>
 
 <p>Rick is the Chief Strategy Officer for BIA/Kelsey. Rick is expert in digital media innovations, competitive strategies, new product development and new business models, including digital ecosystem collaboration strategies. </p>
 <p>Rick is the program director for BIA/Kelsey's advisory service Digital Strategies for Broadcasting. This program provides coverage and analysis of how new technologies, competition, shifting consumer demographics and media usage trends are driving changes in the media ecosystem and what broadcasters must do to be successful in the new environment.  Rick assists clients with their business planning and revenue models, strategic research, market assessment, designing and implementing digital strategies. He co-founded SpectraRep, one of BIA's companies, which sells a patent-pending IP-based alerting system which he co-invented. </p>
 <p>Prior to joining BIA in 2000, Rick was senior vice president of NAB's Research and Information Group. In this position, he was in charge of the association's new technology assessment, audience and policy research, strategic planning, information systems, including all Internet operations and he also developed publications and seminars.</p>
 <p>Before joining NAB in 1983, Rick was a faculty member in the Department of Telecommunication at Michigan State University where he taught and did research in the areas of emerging telecommunication technologies and strategic market research. He also served on the graduate management faculties of George Mason University and George Washington University in telecommunications management and the University of Maryland, where he taught strategic market management and research methodologies.</p>
 <p>Rick was selected as the Spring 2011 Shapiro Fellow at George Washington University where he teaches entrepreneurship in new media.  He published a number of research articles and papers in these areas and serves on editorial boards of leading scholarly journals in the communications field. He worked at radio stations WSOQ-AM/WEZG-FM and Upstate Cablevision in North Syracuse, NY.</p>
 <p>Rick received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University; M.S. from Syracuse University and B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.</p>

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<h3>Toni Fiedler  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Toni Fiedler.jpg" alt="Toni Fiedler" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Director Marketing and Business Development APAC, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany</strong></p>
 
 <p>Toni Fiedler represents Fraunhofer IIS in the Asia-Pacific region. He joined Fraunhofer IIS, the main inventor of MP3, and the co-developer of AAC, MPEG Surround and many other wide-spread audio innovations, in 2011, after seven years with Dolby Laboratories and Coding Technologies. He is based in Beijing, China.</p>
 <p>As a consultant to broadcasters, mobile carriers, chip manufacturers and content aggregators he has been involved in many projects aiming at future-proof technology ecosytems across the entertainment industries. He also is an experienced contributor to international standardization organisations and headed the Asia branch of Coding Technologies from 2006 to 2008.</p>
 <p>Toni has a strong background in the media industries and digital audio/video as well as multimedia engineering. In 1996, he co-founded Syrinx music & media GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, also acting as the Managing Director of the company. His company gained high profile in its sector as one of the first DVD pre-mastering facilities in Europe and the developer of the first DVD-Audio in the market place.</p>
 <p>Prior to this he served as Tonmeister and Product Manager with major music labels for more than eight years, most of this time at Sony Music Entertainment, serving world class artists and handling worldwide CD and music video products.</p>
 <p>Toni Fiedler was born in 1962. He studied sound design and music production at the University of Detmold, Germany and holds an MBA from the University of Lueneburg, Germany. </p>
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<h3>Namho Hur  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Namho Hur .jpg" alt="Namho Hur " width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Director, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea</strong></p>
 
 <p>Namho Hur received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea, in 1992, 1994, and 2000. </p>

 <p>Namho Hur is currently with the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea. He is Director of Broadcasting System Research Department in ETRI. He was an Executive Director of Association of Realistic Media Industry (ARMI) in Korea. ARMI was established to promote realistic media industry including 3DTV and UHDTV broadcasting industry. Also he is Associate Professor with the Department of Mobile Communications and Digital Broadcasting, University of Science and Technology (UST) in Korea since 2005 September. For the collaborative research in the area of multi-view video synthesis and the effect of object motion and disparity on visual comfort, he was with Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) from 2003 to 2004. His main research interests are backward-compatible 3DTV broadcasting systems including 3D DTV and 3D DMB.</p>
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<h3>Takayuki ITO  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Takayuki ITO.jpg" alt="Takayuki ITO" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Executive Research Engineer of NHK-STRL, Japan</strong></p>
 
 <p>Takayuki ITO is working for NHK since 1979 and for NHK STRL since 1981.
He worked as Deputy Director General of STRL from 2008 to 2010 and is now Executive Research Engineer of STRL.  His current major research work includes access technologies, human science, and 3DTV.  He is also leading a project of Super Hi-Vision Public Viewing of London Olympic Games.
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<h3>Yasuhiro ITO</h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Yasuhiro Ito.jpg" alt="Yasuhiro ITO" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Head of Broadcasting Networks Research Division, NHK-STRL, Japan</strong></p>
 
 <p>Yasuhiro Ito received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in 1981, 1983 and 1991 respectively. Since 1983, he has been with Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). He was involved in research for mobile receiving antenna for satellite broadcasting and microwave HDTV digital transmission. He is now a Head of Broadcasting Networks Research Division, NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories. His current research interests are in digital transmission for terrestrial, satellite and cable broadcasting. He is a member of the IEICE, ITE and SMPTE, and a senior member of the IEEE.</p>
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<h3>Ben Keen</h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Ben Keen.jpg" alt="Ben Keen" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Chief Analyst, IFI Head of Research</strong></p>
 
 <p>Ben Keen has been instrumental in building Screen Digest into the world’s premiere research company focusing on the media and entertainment space. Through Ben’s leadership, Screen Digest has become the primary source of market analysis and strategic insight for many of the largest communications corporations in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. This leading position was reinforced through the acquisition of the foremost US analyst group in the field, Adams Media Research, which Ben now also directs.</p>
 <p>In late 2010, Screen Digest was acquired by IHS Inc. along with the leading technology analyst firm iSuppli Corporation. Screen Digest and iSuppli have formed a new business unit within IHS responsible for tracking and analysing the entire TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) value-chain. Ben has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst of the Media business unit within this combined operation.</p>
 <p>As Chief Analyst, Mr Keen directs all IHS Screen Digest’s research and consultancy activities. He has overall responsibility for the hundreds of major research reports published by the company since 1997 and the ongoing continuous strategic Intelligence services supplied to more than 200 major clients, including Time Warner, Sony, ITV, Microsoft, NBC Universal, 20th Century Fox, Nintendo, BBC, Vodafone, Philips, The Walt Disney Company, Deutsche Telekom, Paramount Pictures, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Discovery Networks, Kodak, BT, JP Morgan, MTV, and Apple.</p>
 <p>Under Ben’s management, Screen Digest has grown rapidly from 13 specialist analysts in 2003 to over 50 in 2011.</p>
 <p>Renowned for his insight and vision, Ben is one of the most sought-after speakers on the international conference circuit. He has delivered over 500 presentations and lectures, including keynote addresses at many international conventions. Additionally, he has contributed articles to more than 20 different books, magazines and newspapers. </p>
 <p>As an internationally recognised expert in the media and communications business, Ben’s services as a consultant and advisor are constantly in demand. Since 1988, he has been retained as an advisor to the British Screen Advisory Council, a government-industry liaison organisation that counts the elite of the UK media management amongst its membership. Recently Mr Keen has been an advisor to the CEO and Board of a leading TV technology manufacturer, and has consulted at board-level to a UK broadcaster Plc, a large entertainment retailer, a top 5 games publisher, a leading silicon vendor, a major public broadcaster, and the UK Film Council. </p>
 <p>In 2009, he also became a guest lecturer at the National Film & TV School, the Cass Business School, and the Media Business School.</p>
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<h3>Keiichi Kubota  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Keiichi Kubota .jpg" alt="Keiichi Kubota " width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Director-General, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Science and Technology Research Laboratories (NHK STRL), Japan</strong></p>
 
 <p>Keiichi Kubota joined Japan Broadcasting Corporation in 1976.Since August 1980, he had been with the Science and Technology Research Laboratories of NHK, working in the areas of satellite transmission systems of HDTV, signal processing for HDTV. From 1989 through 1993, he was the Senior Scientist at NHK's New York Office. During this period he participated in various HDTV standardization activities in SMPTE, ATSC, and the FCC Advisory Committee on ATV Service. In 1993, he was transferred to NHK Laboratories as the Senior Research Scientist, and later the Deputy Director of Advanced Television Systems Research Division, where he was in charge of research activities in digital coding of HDTV. In 1996 he was transferred to the Planning Division of the Engineering Administration Department where he was responsible for starting NHK's digital satellite broadcasting service. From 2001 through 2005, he was the Director of Planning and Coordination Division, and then the Deputy Director-General of the Laboratories. From 2005 through 2007 he was in charge of the nationwide rollout of NHK’s terrestrial digital broadcasting services serving as Engineering Controller for the Engineering Administration Department. Currently, he is the Director-General of the NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1976 and1987 respectively, and is a fellow of SMPTE and IEEE.</p>
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<h3>James Kutzner  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/James Kutzner.jpg" alt="James Kutzner" width="120" height="150" /></div>
 <strong>Senior Director, Advance Technology,Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), USA</strong></p>
 
 <p>James Kutzner is Senior Director of Advanced Technology at PBS where he manages engineering and technical projects within PBS.   Kutzner is a member of the ATSC Board and chairs the ATSC Planning Team on the Next Generation of Broadcast Television.  He is co-chair of SMPTE 32NF, the Technology Committee for Network Facilities and Architecture.  He is also Vice Chair of the Open Mobile Video Coalition’s Technical Advisory Group.  He holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota.  He is a Fellow of SMPTE and a member of the IEEE. </p>
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<h3>Phil Laven  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Phil Laven .jpg" alt="Phil Laven " width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Chairman, Digital Video Broadcasting Project Office (DVB), Switzerland</strong></p>
 
 <p>Philip Laven is Chairman of the DVB Project, acting on behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) where he was Director of the Technical Department from May 1997 until August 2007.  Before joining the EBU, he worked for the BBC where most of his work was associated with R&D, including being Chief Engineer R&D with responsibility for all of the BBC's R&D activities.  As Controller of Engineering Policy from 1993 to 1997, he played a leading role in the development of the BBC's policy on many technical developments, such as the introduction of digital audio broadcasting and digital television. Between 1994 and 2009, he was Chairman of the ETSI/EBU/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee (which is responsible for setting European standards for broadcasting systems). </p>
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 <h3>Bill Meintel </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Bill Meintel.jpg" alt="Bill Meintel" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>President, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Broadcast Technology Society (IEEE BTS), USA</strong></p>
 
 <p>Bill Meintel is an Electrical Engineer with more than 40 years experience in the communications field. Bill’s first position was as a field engineer for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and later in the FCC Media Bureau’s Policy and Rules Division. There, Bill directed the development of major spectrum utilization modeling projects as well as representing the United States at major international broadcasting conferences. </p>

 <p>Since entering private practice in 1989, he has been heavily involved in broadcast technical consulting, computer modeling and spectrum planning. He has been extensively involved in spectrum planning for Digital Television in the US and internationally as a consultant to both government and industry.</p>

 <p>Bill is President of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, a
member of the Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi and a partner
in the consulting firm of Meintel, Sgrignoli and Wallace.</p>
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 <h3>Liliana Nakonechyj  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Liliana Nakonechyj.jpg" alt="Liliana Nakonechyj" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>President, Brazilian Society of Television Engineering (SET), Director, Transmission Technology for TV Globo (TV Globo), Brazil</strong></p>
 
 <p>Liliana Nakonechnyj is the president of the Brazilian Society of Television Engineering -SET and director of Transmission Technology for TV Globo, Brazil. Liliana graduated as a telecommunications engineer, and holds MBAs in business and strategic management. Her career has been mostly dedicated to launching innovative transmission systems, taking advantage of terrestrial, satellite and fiber optic technologies. Since 1994, she has lead studies for the introduction of terrestrial digital television in Brazil and is currently working on its implementation.</p>
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 <h3>Joonho Park </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Joonho Park.jpg" alt="Joonho Park" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Senior Vice President, Head of Standards and Technology Enabling Team Digital Media & Communications R&D Center Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd</strong></p>
 
 <p>Dr. Joonho Park is currently leading the Standards and Technology Enabling Team at Samsung Electronics. Major areas of interest are Next Generation Wireless Communications, Next Generation Broadcasting, Multimedia Systems and Services, Regulations, and Industry Alliances.  Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Dr. Park worked in industry over seventeen years including Bell Labs (Wireless Data), IBM (Software Engineering), and Bellcore (Data Communications).</p>
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<h3>Mark Richer  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Mark Richer.jpg" alt="Mark Richer" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>President, Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc (ATSC), USA</strong></p>
 
 <p>Mark S. Richer is the President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc (ATSC). The ATSC is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries. The ATSC DTV Standard has been adopted by the United States, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Argentina.</p>
 <p>Mr. Richer was Vice President & General Manager , CDS a division of Thomcast Communications (now Thales). While at Thomcast, he created and managed Comark Digital Services, providing consulting, design and turnkey services for broadcast television stations making the conversion to digital technology. He was also responsible for marketing, communications, strategic planning and business development for Thomcast Communications, including its Comark and Comwave subsidiaries.</p>
 <p>Mr. Richer first joined the ATSC after 16 years with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) where, as Vice President of Engineering & Computer Services, he was responsible for development of new technologies for PBS and its member stations, design of audio/video systems, and management of computer operations. He was instrumental in the development of technological innovations, including the Line 21 closed captioning for the deaf system for which PBS was awarded an Emmy for Engineering Development. He was also responsible for the selection and implementation of digital video compression and transmission technology and led PBS efforts in the area of digital and high definition television.</p>
 <p>Prior to joining PBS in 1979, Mr. Richer worked in various engineering positions in both commercial and instructional television as well as for a major video/film production facility.
Mr. Richer served as Chairman of the System Subcommittee Working Party on Test and Evaluation for the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service. In this position, he was responsible for testing proponent ATV systems, including that of the digital HDTV Grand Alliance. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the Board of Directors of the ATSC Forum. Mr. Richer has been profiled in Worth and Broadcasting & Cable magazines.</p>
<p>Mr. Richer was chairman of the Cable Television Advisory Commission for the City of Alexandria, Virginia from 1994-1995. He holds two patents, and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology.</p>
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<h3>Ulrich Reimers  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Ulrich Reimers .jpg" alt="Ulrich Reimers " width="120" height="171" /></div><strong>Chairman, Digital Video Broadcasting Project Office Technical Module (DVB), Germany</strong></p>
 
 <p>Head of the Institute for Communications Technology, TU Braunschweig Chair, DVB Technical Module Professor Ulrich Reimers studied communication engineering at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (Braunschweig Technical University), Germany. Following research at the university’s Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communications Technology) he joined BTS Broadcast Television Systems in Darmstadt. Between 1989 and 1993 he was Technical Director of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg - one of the major public broadcasters in Germany. Since 1993 he has been a Professor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig and Managing Director of the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communications Technology).</p>
 <p>He is chairman of the Technical Module within the DVB Project and a board member of Deutsche TV-Plattform (the German institution co-ordinating the interests of all organisations involved in TV). He is the author of more than 100 publications, including text books on DVB. </p>
 <p>In 1995 Prof. Reimers was awarded the Montreux Achievement Gold Medal for his contributions to the development of the DVB technology. In 1998 he received the IBC John Tucker Award and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Television Society of the United Kingdom. In 1999 he received the J. J. Thomson Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). In June 2000 he was awarded the 1st class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony (Germany) Order of Merit and in October 2000 he was awarded a Diploma of Honour of the National Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters (HAT) of Russia. In 2001 he was the recipient of the Leibniz Ring and of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. Prof. Reimers received the IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award 2002. In May 2004 he was awarded the Richard-Theile-Medaille of FKTG in Germany. In November 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE. In March 2006 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) made Prof. Reimers a member of their Hall of Fame.</p>
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<h3>Peter Siebert  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Peter Siebert.jpg" alt="Peter Siebert" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Executive Director, Digital Video Broadcasting Project Office (DVB), Switzerland</strong></p>
 
 <p>Peter Siebert received his M.Sc. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1989 in physics from the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a member of the IEEE for 23 years and a Senior Member since 2006. In May 2009 he started his role as Director of the DVB Project Office in Geneva, Switzerland. From November 2008 he was with Albis Technologies Ltd, the former R&D Division of Siemens Switzerland. He joined Siemens Switzerland Ltd in 2001 in the area of system design of next generation systems, combining SDH and packet oriented transmission schemes. Since 2003, he has been instrumental in the end-to-end video system design and STB architecture for the Siemens Home Entertainment IPTV Solution. From 1995 to 2001 he was with SES-ASTRA, a European Satellite operator based in Luxembourg, where he was involved the introduction of digital Television based on DVB-S and in planning and development of the ASTRA Broadband Interactive system. In this role he actively participated in ETSI and DVB working groups and has been the rapporteur for several Standards documents. Prior to SES-ASTRA, from 1990 to 1994, he was leading a team of product development engineers in the area of professional audio and video transmission over telecomm networks at Philips Kommunikations Industrie (PKI) AG. </p>
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<h3>Masayuki Sugawara  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Masayuki Sugawara.jpg" alt="Masayuki Sugawara" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Executive Research Scientist, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK STRL), Japan</strong></p>
 
 <p>Masayuki Sugawara received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electric communication engineering, Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. </p>
 <p>Masayuki Sugawara joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Tokyo, Japan, in 1983. Since 1987, he has been researching solid-state image sensor and HDTV camera at Science and Technology Research Laboratories. He was an associate professor at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo from 2000 until 2004. He has been attending ITU-R SG6 meeting since 2004 and been active in the working parties that deal with program production.</p>
 <p>At present, Masayuki Sugawara is an executive research scientist at NHK STRL and is engaged in the research of ultra-high definition TV system. He is a member of SMPTE, IEEE, IEICE and ITE. </p>
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<h3>Lieven Vermaele</h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Lievenn Vermaael.jpg" alt="Lievenn Vermaael" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Technical Director, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Switzerland</strong></p>
 
 <p>Lieven Vermaele began his career at VRT, the Belgian, Flemish, broadcaster, where he worked on the broadcaster's digital roadmap with a focus on transmission, ICT, digital radio and television and new media projects. In particular, he played a key role in developing and planning the digital future of VRT. </p>
 <p>After six years with VRT, he moved to Alcatel-Lucent, from where he now joins the EBU.</p>

 <p>Lieven Vermaele was born in Gent (Belgium) in 1975. He obtained his “Master of Science in Engineering” from the University of Gent, and pursued several post-graduate studies.</p></blockquote>

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<h3>Kent Walker  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Kent Walker.jpg" alt="Kent Walker" width="120" height="154" /></div><strong>Vice President of Technology, Corporate Research and Development, Qualcomm, USA</strong></p>
 
 <p>G. Kent Walker is a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Inc.  In his current role, Mr. Walker provides technical leadership for eMBMS project in Corporate Research and Development. Previous technical leadership positions at Qualcomm have included MediaFLO and Digital Cinema projects. </p>
 <p>Mr. Walker has numerous granted and pending patents in the areas of digital communications, digital audio, and image transmission. Products developed under his leadership include analog and digital video satellite receivers, digital microwave radios, audio signal processors, digital satellite modems, video scrambling, access control, and digital cinema equipment.</p>
 <p>Prior to Qualcomm, Walker was employed with General Instrument, M/A-COM Linkabit, Scientific Atlanta, and Harris Corporation(s).  He is a member of SMPTE, AES, and IEEE.</p>
 <p>Walker earned his BEE and MSEE degrees and Certificate in Acoustical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.</p>
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<h3>David Wood   </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/David Wood.jpg" alt="David Wood" width="120" height="154" /></div><strong>Deputy Director, Technology and Development European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Switzerland</strong></p>
 
 <p>Dr David Wood is Deputy Director, EBU Technology and Development, at the EBU Headquarters in Geneva Switzerland. The EBU is the collective body of Europe 75 national broadcasters. He chairs a number of standards groups including the DVB CM-3DTV group and ITU-R WP 6C. David is also co-chair of the European High Definition Forum which also increasingly concerns itself with 3DTV, as HDTV becomes more commonplace. He has also been a lifelong 3D stills photographer using the ancient medium of 35mm Kodachrome. </p>
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<h3>Yiyan Wu  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Yiyan Wu.jpg" alt="Yiyan Wu" width="120" height="152" /></div><strong>Principal Research Scientist, Communication Research Centre (CRC), Canada</strong></p>
 
 <p>Dr. Yiyan Wu is a Principal Research Scientist with the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada.  Dr. Wu’s research interests include broadband multimedia communications, digital broadcasting, and communication systems engineering.  Dr. Wu is an IEEE Fellow (2001), an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Shanghai Jiao-tong University.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. </p>
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<h3>Wenjun Zhang  </h3>
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 <p><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Wenjun Zhang.jpg" alt="Wenjun Zhang" width="120" height="175" /></div><strong>Chief Scientist, National Engineering Research Center of Digital Television (NERC-DTV), China</strong></p>
 
 <p>Dr. Wenjun Zhang received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1984, 1987 and 1989, respectively. </p>
 <p>From 1990 to 1993, He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Philips Kommunikation Industrie AG in Nuremberg, Germany, where he was actively involved in developing HD-MAC system. He joined the Faculty of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1993 and became a full professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1995. As the project leader, he successfully developed the first Chinese HDTV prototype system in 1998.  He was one of the main contributors to the Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting Standard issued in 2006. He holds more than 37 patents and published more than 90  papers in international journals and conferences.  </p>
 <p>Prof. Zhang’s main research interests include digital video coding and transmission, multimedia semantic processing and intelligent video surveillance. He is the vice president for Research of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Chief Scientist of the Chinese Natioanal Engineering Research Centre of Digital Television, an industry/government consortium in DTV technology research and standardization. </p>
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